Tethering RF radians

How do I tether two Radians that installed next to each other, RFing? I didn't know about the importance of tethering RFing seats until recently and trying to figure this out. And I've also heard that you can tether Radians bottom of the seats they sit on. I checked my car and couldn't see where. And also the cap on the front seat isn't removable. I find Radian's manual very vague on this and my car's manual doesn't talk about tethering RF seats.

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If you have a solid install using LATCH or the seatbelt, tethering isn't an absolute must. It's a preferential thing on the part of the parent.

Look on the floor where the seats in the front are. You'll see the metal track for the seat attached to the car's frame. Use the d-ring that came with the seat, loop it through the front seat's frame on the floor and connect it to the tether strap on the car seat. You don't have to tighten the tether strap up extremely tight; just taking the slack out of it is ok.

We didn't know where to tether ours either, it took us a while to figure it out! Even with the car manual, it was a bit hard to see.

We eventually found it, it was on the other side of the seat the carseat is on - that sounds confusing, but the tether went all the way under the seat and attached behind the seat. Does that make sense?

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Lesley (29) and my DH Steve (28)...BFF's since 1996, together since 2005, married in 2010.

Also, we weren't able to tether using the front seat track - my truck has this annoying cover that isn't removeable so the D-ring couldn't fit. That's when we decided it'd be smart to look in the manual, which said to tether it to the seat the car seat is on.

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Lesley (29) and my DH Steve (28)...BFF's since 1996, together since 2005, married in 2010.

For RF tethering, not all cars have suitable points to create a tether anchor. Mine doesn't, for example (2000 Jetta). Everything is either bolted flush to the floor or moves. I have a Radian and still feel good about using it untethered.

All that said, try googling "swedish tether + [your make/model of vehicle]" - there are a lot of carseat forums where people discuss this (that's how I found that I wasn't crazy and missing something obvious). Sometimes there is some plastic trim that can be popped off the seat track to create an anchor point.

Since very few seats allow RF tethering, the vehicle manuals aren't going to address it. And since all vehicles are different, the carseat manuals can't be very specific, since it will vary from car to car. Post your vehicle here - someone might have it and be able to help!

Lesley, you should contact Diono with some pictures of your tether and see what they say.

You can tether to the seat the radian is installed on. I'm picturing the Dring going around the front leg of the seat and tethering to that. I don't think they meant it was okay to go all the way to the back of the seat, but who knows? If you contact them, let us know what they say.

that's a good point. I'll have to call to see what they say - our car manual says to use a tether by anchoring to the ring found on the bottom back of our actual seat (that the car seat is on), so that's what we did.

I will call them asap.

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Lesley (29) and my DH Steve (28)...BFF's since 1996, together since 2005, married in 2010.